Word: airport
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...look at how these devices may eventually be used, Finland offers some interesting insights. At the Helsinki airport, a Coke vending machine has a mobile number instead of a coin slot--dial up the machine and a Coke drops out, with the charge appearing on your phone bill. There's also a Helsinki car wash you can operate without leaving your car: dial...
...traffic from Logan Airport, Dinkins wasunable to arrive in time for a small reception inhis honor, which was attended by about 20 studentsas well as Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III,Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter,Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans andInstitute of Politics Fellow John Mack...
Mandela's motorcade was small--the trip from Boston's Logan International airport to Harvard Square took just over 12 minutes...
Israel is also renowned for its airport security measures, some of which border on the most sensible sort of paranoia. Israeli pilots and flight attendants, some of the best to come out of mandatory army service, know a thing or two about how to wrest an airplane from terrorists if necessary. Security questionnaires along with seat assignments have long been the norm here...
...live with this constant threat? After the U.S. bombed Afghanistan and the Sudan, the precautions taken in America filled highlight reels here for days: cranes moving gigantic barriers around the Washington Monument, increased airport security and decreased access to certain offices and revered sites. Surely this barricading offers some protection, But something will be lost when third-graders go home and describe a Washington Monument not as a serene pinnacle to American glory but as a virtual maze of uniforms and restrictions, recalling that it was surrounded not by flags but by concrete...